Re:Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
by theshrike79 on Friday May 09, 2025 @03:33AM
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So basically Musicbrainz Picard, but for audiobooks?
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Re:Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
by volteret4 on Friday May 09, 2025 @04:16AM
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No, this is a server app for your podcasts and audiobooks, picard is the best music metadata tagger imho, but they arent related
Re:Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
by jostyee on Friday May 09, 2025 @04:36AM
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Self-hosted Audible alternative
Re:Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
by theshrike79 on Friday May 09, 2025 @06:26AM
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> But the ideal solution would be to have some way of generating fingerprints for each audiobook, and then build up a database which matches that fingerprint to the correct metadata. That way the work of organizing and tagging large collections could be crowdsourced; this is what other communities have done.
I was referring to this bit, which is exactly what the Musicbrainz database does for music albums.